My journey from a technical and strict discipline of forensic and composite art to fine art. I'm trying to unfurl my wings to fly into this new field but I'm still struggling to get out of my cocoon!
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
-Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Friday, March 13, 2009

Bingo the Test Cat

Bingo is another Art for Animals painting. Read more about this remarkable feline in that blog.

Sheila, the expressions you convey in your animals are just superb. I also really like what you are doing with the simplified backgrounds, and setting the animals off to one side. These are delightful paintings.

There is so much good stuff here, Sheila! The texture of the fur, the volume of the head and body shown through the values and cool warm relationships of your paint, and that great background with the subtle red behind the cat (I could go on...)

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I was born in San Francisco but my father moved me and my mom to Japan when I was 11 months old. There he helped set up the new Army HDQRS after WWII. I stayed in Japan until I was 18 and moved back to California to attend college. I have lived in several cities in the Bay Area since then. I was a police officer for 26 years retiring as a Sergeant a few years ago. I was pretty successful as a Forensic Artist and the composite drawings I used to do to help catch crooks and other bad folks. Now that I'm retired, I am trying to catch up and access all that fun and fine art I've missed out on. After seeing all that darkness, I always look for the light in people and situations.